The Palestinian National Revival: In the Shadow of the Leadership Crisis, 1937–1967 , by Moshe Shemesh. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. 321 pages. $50.00 cloth, $49.99 e-book. Moshe Shemesh's The Palestinian National Revival evokes one of the fundamental debates regarding “Palestinian failures” to fend off Zionism and realize statehood, namely the responsibility of Palestinian leaders for the fate of their people in the period from British colonial rule over Palestine up until 1967. This debate is not the theme of the book. But while it offers fresh insights and examines the Palestinian leadership crisis between 1937 and 1967 in granular detail, it fails to engage with the colonial context that initially bolstered Zionism and eventually midwifed Israel into being. The book opens with a list of fourteen points that highlight the “scholarly contributions” it presents (“Preface: Aims and Scope,” pp. xi–xiv). These contributions, not all of which are particularly new, are distributed in six chapters covering two distinct periods: from 1937 to 1948, the era …

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回顾：巴勒斯坦民族复兴：在领导危机的阴影下，1937-1967 年，Moshe Shemehs

巴勒斯坦民族复兴：在领导危机的阴影下，1937-1967 年，摩西·谢梅什着。布卢明顿：印第安纳大学出版社，2018 年。321 页。布 50.00 美元，电子书 49.99 美元。Moshe Shemesh 的《巴勒斯坦民族复兴》引发了一场关于“巴勒斯坦失败”以抵御犹太复国主义和实现建国的基本辩论，即从英国殖民统治到 1967 年期间巴勒斯坦领导人对其人民命运的责任。这场辩论不是本书的主题。但是，尽管它提供了新的见解并详细地审视了 1937 年至 1967 年之间的巴勒斯坦领导人危机，但它没有涉及最初支持犹太复国主义并最终使以色列成为现实的殖民背景。本书开头列出了 14 点，突出了它提出的“学术贡献”（“前言：目标和范围”，第 xi-xiv 页）。这些贡献，并非全部都是特别新的，分为六个章节，涵盖两个不同的时期：从 1937 年到 1948 年，这个时代……